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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Want to heat your car seats? That's a suspension. Want to use your car's radio? Another subscription. Get a higher mileage count to the gallon? Subscription.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This model should be straight-up illegal on environmental grounds alone. It's particularly egregious for electric car batteries.

Some manufacturers will make models with nominally different batteries, but in reality the same batteries are used throughout. There might be a model with three different battery options; 400, 300, and 200 mile range options. But the 200 mile range one doesn't actually have a battery half the size. It has a 400 mile battery with half of its capacity locked out by software controls. That means the 200 mile range option vehicles are hauling around hundreds of pounds of extra weight for literally no reason at all. Such cars are pointlessly burning energy every mile they drive, hauling around extra battery that serves them no purpose.

This stuff should be straight-up illegal. It should not be legal to sell a vehicle with software-locked equipment. Want to sell trim levels with different features? Fine. Quit being a cheap bastard and actually build vehicles with different equipment levels. Don't build them all with the high-end options and then force those who buy the cheaper trims to burn money for the rest of that vehicle's hauling around equipment they'll never use.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

If only we lived in a country that didn't have exploitative plutocrats running the government.